Food product.



m int-Audit, or s'n'LoUIs, MISSOURI,

ASSIGNOR T GRAINTBODUCT S COMPANY,

or. sr. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION or DELAWARE.

oon PRODUCT.

To it midi concern it own that I, ASHLEY V. BLACK, :1. citiz'ei ttlie-Un'ited States, residint at the eity'of Sit. 'L biiis', s tate of Missouri, lihve invented eceiitsinhert and useful Food'Prodnote-ofwhich the'lfollowing is a specification.

This. invent-ion. relatesto a certain new 0 I iit-'i,-;0 and 'yil eli f un alatable and of divalumbut I. huve found 1y associating or mixing thin constituents of ugrec f-linowii food vah'w', I may fishto the consuniii'ig public Queen .21 very palatable and tenet easily digestible and all the laxative "litre-feels. And my present des-1n the production and proo'otl product having bran til-ingredients; No. '1 186,768, of June esicr-ibe a food-product s element's, bran and an d or-combined with a prefle qsueh its cracker meal. product, however, 'I use it the bran and edible iscoininereinlly known as t. S'ajgfa cereal, such as e, mixed in substan- Jate'i" portion of the cles us sugar, salt, and one then steam cooked ed-out into flake form, toa's d-or baked, flaked lv nutritious and easily tantially different Previously cooked flour,

product hence iucli igles, e s ortiugredieuts, lj'ran, rm a fluked cereal, prefn flak'e or in more nlilt'etl ear-m, and an edible so several-ingredients or constitune 1--m'- inix'e. l, to obtain the the proportions approxislave and one-belt per cent. exit-,"flii-ked-cereal,and

Specification of Letters Patent In producing my present food product, and'an providing first the edible syrup, I

mix together-ina'suitable receptacle strained honey and a 'sweet syrup, such as molasses,

- l cane syrup, m:u lesyrup, corn syrup, or the like, in approximately equal parts. I then preferably heat this'syrup-mixture until the some is one relatively thin consistency, so that it will pour easily. I then, also in a suitable receptacle or mechanical mixer, coniniingle the bran with, say, approxiinately half the flaked cereal, then pour into the mixer the relatively thin, hot syrup,.encl then thoroughly and intimately mix the syrup with the bran and flaked cerealf I then add to the mass in the mixer the remainder or half of the flaked cereal, and

Patented Nov. 21,1916.

Application filed August 18, 1916. Serial No. 115,593.

ready for toasting or baking, but, that the finished product may be conveniently handled and supplied to consumers, I first mold or otherwise form the mass into suitable individual cakes or biscuits. Accordingly, suitable relatively small or individual molds I preferably of somewhat.rectangular form or shape being provided and at hand, the same are respectively filled with the described thoroughly mixed. and combined ingredients, the material in each mold being suitably e'on'ipactly pressed tl' erein. The several molds so filled are now reversejly placedupon a suitable preiera bly metal toasting 1 surface, the molds duly removed, and jt'he several so formed cakes or biscuits .with' their supporting toasting surface placed within it suitu-hle oven, under thc heat of which, as a temperature of approximately 300 R, the several cakes mbiscuitsare permittt-ad to remain a. suitable length of time, approximately thirty minutes, the several cakes or biscuits being. thereby halted or toasted, thoroughly sterilizelc'l; and rieilatively burdened. On being removed {from the oven, the several food-cakes or biscuits are suitably cooled and are then-ready'fouconsumption, my new food-cakes or, biscuits being preferably packed and wrapped for shipment in suitable containers, cart0ns,'0r the like. a

My new food cakes or-biscuits are delight. fully pleasant to the taste, exceedingly nutritious and nourishing, easily digested,

of high laxative value, and may be manufactured -and produced" and furnished to consumers at relatively low cost. 10

' what I c scribed, the same being composed only of him, a flaked cere'nl', and a syrup, intimn telymix'ed 'together,'com actly' molded into cake or biscu t form, an toasted.

3. As 'a new article of manufacture, the .edible toasted cake or biscuit herein deecribedi the same being composed only of bran, aked corn, 'and e gyrup,int1mately mixed together, compactly molded into cake or biscuit form, and toasted.

4.. A manufactured toasted food composed 0i bran, flaked corn, honey; and molasses.

1 product .5. A 'ma'nufncturedftdasted food product coin osed 'of bran, eflliked cereal, end 'an,

edib e syrup, all'intimately mixed to ther in the proportions approximately 0ft irty-- seven and; one-half per cent. bran, twenty five per cent. flaked corn, and thirty-seven and one-halfper centedible' syrup.

. In testimony whereof, *I'have' signed my name to this specification. 

